Holy shit, I got this exact same fortune about 10 or 11 years ago! I held onto it for ages because it was so ridiculous.It's wild to see it's still in circulation, hahaha
You know that meme where it’s got all these animals lined up left to right and the message is “where do you draw the line”? I’d think probably just before this animal is a good starting place
I kind of agree… I’ve been around these things, and they are incredibly stupid.
I guess I’d draw the line around them purely because in western culture these are pets… But I think practically speaking these are a lot better than actual pigs, which are very intelligent.
We have very strange eating habits when you really think about it.
It always amazed me that the anti-abortion people and the vegetarian people had basically no overlap. Supposedly “pro-life” with no exceptions… unless it’s this pig I want to eat. But that fetus with encephalopathy? That baby deserves every second of his tortuous, miserable life. All 38 hours of it.
I have a friend who is both anti-abortion and vegetarian. She's not the most logical person all the time, but she's really consistent on this one. I vigorously disagree with her anti-abortion stance, but I admire her consistency, if that makes sense.
Here in the Philippines, we’re on full-blown Christmas decors since late August. Complement Halloween decor will be temporarily around a few weeks in late October. The Christmas decor is dismantled early February and replaced by Valentine’s decors.
I find the complaints of other people on this thread weird, for me I see nothing wrong with early Christmas decorations, and your region is already too late anyway. But I do want to hear about why some people find this infuriating.
In Australia, they start selling hot cross buns and Easter eggs the day after Christmas. All these “special occasions” are just an excuse to sell more stuff.
When department stores and commercially made decorations became a thing in the US it was “traditional” to start decorating the day after (American) Thanksgiving, the last week in November. A lot of people still go get a Christmas tree that day.
Now that the “Christmas season” creeps earlier every year, it is tradition to complain about it, note how it’s just a capitalist gold digging opportunity and be annoyed by the Christmas music that usually accompanies the decorations.
Even though a lot of the US never sees snow, most of our decorations are snow related because Christmas replaced Winter Solstice as a holiday and is our opportunity to celebrate winter. It’s strange seeing snow men on sheets of fake snow with snowflakes dangling and hearing music about going on sleigh rides and frosty the snow man when it is still 90 degrees out.
When Christmas finally arrives, it’s not so much “Yay! Christmas!” as “FINALLY I don’t have to listen to that goddamn jinglebell song until next year… well… 8 months anyway…”
And while we dedicate the day to remembering all of our military veterans, the reason it occurs when it does (along with Remembrance Day and Armistice Day) is to mark the end of World War 1.
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